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112 THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL
East Germans favor unification and capitalism. A detailed analysis of
the events of 1989-90 that led to German unification is provided in the
next chapter.
CHAP TER3
A DETAILED AUTOPSY OF THE
COLLAPSE OF THE SUPERIOR SYSTEM IN
THE DIVIDED GERMANY
Before describing the incredible events of 1989-90 that resulted in the
collapse of East Germany and the defeat of communism in the Cold
War, it is first necessary to provide some historical background on the
situation. Germany had been split into two parts since World War II, and
this division was to continue until the revolution of 1989.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ON THE MOST INCREDIBLE
REVOLUTION OF OUR TIME
In World War II, Nazi Germany fought a two-front war against the
communist Soviet Union on the eastern front and against the capitalist
USA and its allies on the western front. Fighting between the capitalist
USA and the capitalist Nazis was fairly limited until very late in the
war, and Nazi Germany committed 80% of its military strength on the
�tern Front (Becker, 1997a) where over 3 million of its own soldiers
dted (well over 80% of its total losses in the war) along with approxi­
mately 1 million soldiers of its satellite allies (Krivosheev, 1997). While
the war never even touched any formal state of the USA, and while the
number of Americans who died in that war was counted in the hundreds
of thousands, approximately 20 million Soviets lost their lives in the
figh� �gainst Germany, and their country was badly destroyed by the
Nazt Invasion. 1